May Swenson quotes
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“The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a sense of freedom and play, even trust in randomness, is necessary to the making of a poem.”
-- May SwensonSource : May Swenson, Gardner McFall (1998). “Made with words”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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“Body my house my horse my hound what will I do when you are fallen”
-- May SwensonSource : "Question" l. 1 (1954)
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“Poetry can magnify experience.”
-- May SwensonSource : May Swenson (1971). “More poems to solve”, Atheneum
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“The summer that I was ten - Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? It must have been a long one then.”
-- May SwensonSource : May Swenson (2013). “May Swenson: Collected Poems: (Library of America #239)”, p.96, Library of America
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“Bat doesn't hit ball, bat meets it.”
-- May SwensonSource : May Swenson (2013). “May Swenson: Collected Poems: (Library of America #239)”, p.495, Library of America
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“Take earth for your own large room and the floor of earth carpeted with sunlight and hung round with silver wind for your dancing place.”
-- May SwensonSource : May Swenson (2013). “May Swenson: Collected Poems: (Library of America #239)”, p.675, Library of America
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“I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.”
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Source : "Our Enemy, The State". Book by Albert Jay Nock, Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Press, 1950.
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“I woke early like a condemned man to the naivety of birdsong.”
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